Nguyen Cao Ky - Quotes

Quotes

  • "Americans are big boys. You can talk them into almost anything. Just sit with them for half an hour over a bottle of whiskey and be a nice guy."
  • "People ask me who my heroes are. I admire Hitler because he pulled his country together when it was in a terrible state in the early thirties. But the situation here is so desperate now that one man would not be enough. We need four or five Hitlers in Vietnam." – July, 1965 interview with the Daily Mirror.
  • "Always emphasizing the role of the Americans in Vietnam, they transformed the Vietnam war into a conflict between the United States and North Vietnam, relegating the people, the government and the armed forces of South Vietnam to a subordinate role. The government of South Vietnam thus became, in the eyes of the peoples of Vietnam and of the world, a puppet regime serving the interests of American imperialists."
  • "Many times, I asked President Johnson and other people to stop this war. To win, you have to go offensive."
  • "The US was and is the world's leading naval power, but, fearing to offend the Soviets, failed to blockade Haiphong. A river of munitions flowed through that port to be used against South Vietnam and its allies."
  • "After Watergate, America was a ship without a rudder. Vietnam was left to its own devices, drifting along towards its fate."

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